Parker Lewis The Big Brother racism controversy from 2007 deserves reflection a decade on. Sure, it was unpleasant but the mob and chattering classes really went into overdrive (with good intentions I guess) and I think much to their regret later on. I wonder to what extent the editing misrepresented Jade Goody, Jo O'Meara and Danielle Lloyd in their interaction with Shilpa Shetty in the house. Maybe the mob and chattering classes felt guilty about the gains made by the Conservative Party (with their shameful anti-immigration election slogan "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?") in the 2005 general election.With Brexit voted on an the UK leaving the EU, I wonder how the racism controversy would play out now?

Irishchatter Seriously I hate how Big Brother is still always on our screens. It's the worst television show in the world! It's just such stupid wannabes who wants to be appeared on the camera in order to get more money! It's like, those people appearing on the show don't give a monkeys arse if they act stupid and rude towards the other contestants! This definitely is not a reality show, in fact, it's more like "Keeping Up with the Kardashians". It's just so depressing and ignorant, it would just put you off looking at their sorry faces and the inappropriate behavior that goes on. You could only see just a few well-known "celebrities" contestants on this, the rest just come out of nowhere! I really hope they cancel this godforsaken show, it's disgusting and distasteful!

glenn-aylett Just as unbearable as the summer one, which seems to go on forever, this tired out pile of rubbish now has a new lease of life on Channel 5 after nine years on Channel 4. Basically it is like the general public one, where people are placed in a house cut off from the rest of the world and filmed, in the case of the zeleb one, for three weeks with various challenges to do to make the show more interesting.As with all these pointless reality shows with celebrity in the title( mercifully only this and I'm A Celebrity survive of this genre now), the celebs are the usual gaggle of almost forgotten soap stars, glamour models, one hit wonders and a more recent phenomenon, contestants from other reality shows like Jedward and Kerry Katona.While about 2 million people still lap this rubbish up, mercifully most people have seen through Celebrity Big Bore and the bunch of whinging, moaning and often unpleasant z list celebs. My one wish is that both versions of Big Brother get cancelled forever as falling ratings suggest people are sick of the show and the hype around it. However, like Star Trek, it seems to have attracted a cult fanbase who are prepared to spend hours standing outside the house in the snow, waiting for someone to be evicted.Mercifully, ratings for this show on Channel 5 have now tumbled to a million and it's like the franchise could be cancelled after 2017's series.

bs3dc There is an awful lot of competition for the above accolade, but this programme is definitely one of the worst around. This series three people have already walked out (as of writing) which shows how much the producers have lost it in recent series in trying to make the very dull antics of the house-mates more interesting. The decreasing viewing figures can hardly make up for the low production values any more.There are very few house-mates you could term as being famous. Last year it was won by an unknown, Chantelle who has proceeded to unleash a dire show of her own on the unsuspecting public, but at least we have the consolation that it probably won't be long before viewers get sick of her. The other contestant from that series that springs to mind is George Galloway who with the biggest expense bill of all the MPs last year should be serving his voters, not pretending to be a cat in one of the most cringe-worthy moments of TV in recent years.My major problem with the show (as I can just not watch it) is that it is an excuse for most of the most popular newspapers in Britain to devote pages and pages to these wannabes and has-beens in the place of any real news or indeed anything interesting.The other thing of course like all so-called 'celebrity' shows is that nobody actually famous or currently successful is going to want to appear on the show and be made to look foolish. Every series the producers 'accidentally' leak names of real celebrities who are supposed to be appearing (but who wouldn't dream of demeaning themselves like this), so that people watch the launch show and go "who the hell is that?" at the entry of half the contestants.Please cancel this rubbish now and produce some real entertainment. Please?